Sunday Evening New Releases and ShackReviews

April 23, 2006 3:15 PM

There's another big batch of new releases this week. PS2 gets the much awaited Ace Combat Zero, Guild Wars gets its standalone Factions (PC) campaign, and Benoit Sokal's anticipated Paradise (PC) finally comes out. Sokal is the designer behind the Syberia games, two of the better received traditional adventures of the last few years. Personally, I wasn't a huge Syberia fan; the games always felt too sterile and noninteractive for me, but I know a lot of adventure fans enjoyed them so it should be interesting to see how Paradise does. DS also has sort of an odd trio of games this week, with a fighter in the form of Guilty Gear Dust Strikers, a Taito RPG/RTS called LostMagic, and--of all things--a Top Gun combat flight sim game. Go figure.

This Week's New Releases

PS2

Ace Combat Zero (Namco | Tue. | PS2)
Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny (Gust | Tue. | PS2)
Metal Saga (Crea-Tech | Tue. | PS2)

Xbox/X360

Painkiller: Hell Wars (People Can Fly | Fri. | Xbox)

GameCube

Major League Baseball 2K6 (Kush Games | Mon. | GCN, also PS2, Xbox, X360, PSP last week)

Portable

Dr. Sudoku (Success | Wed. | GBA)
Guilty Gear Dust Strikers (Arc System Works | Tue. | DS)
LostMagic (Taito Corp. | Tue. | DS)
Top Gun (IAV | Wed. | DS)

PC

Black & White II: Battle of the Gods (Lionhead | Tue. | PC)
Guild Wars Factions (ArenaNet | Fri. | PC)
Paradise (White Birds Prod. | Tue. | PC)
Shadowgrounds (Frozenbyte | Tue. | PC)
SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars (Phenomic | Fri. | PC)

Multi

2006 FIFA World Cup (EA Sports | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, GCN, X360, DS, PSP, GB, PSP)
The Hustle: Detroid Streets (Blade Int. | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, also PSP in Oct. '05)
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (Sumo Digital | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, PSP)
Rampage: Total Destruction (Pipeworks | Mon. | PS2, GCN)
Winback 2: Project Poseidon (Funcom | Tue. | PS2, Xbox)

Additional Database Entries

UberSoldier (Burut, PC, 2006)

Featured ShackReviews:

Another bountiful batch of reviews this week. Masem revisits Square's Final Fantasy VII (PS1) and also checks out Nintendo's Metroid Prime Pinball.
SixDemonBag has two reviews as well, writeups on EA's Medal of Honor: European Assault (Xbox) and Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider: Legend (X360).
Finally, SilverSnake reviews Telltale's CSI Three Dimensions of Murder (PC) and Entity brings us another review of Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider: Legend (X360).

This week I started Funcom's Dreamfall (Xbox) and Vivarium's Odama (GCN). Meanwhile, I'm slowly working through three Zelda games: The Legend of Zelda (NES), A Link to the Past (SNES), and Ocarina of Time (N64).

Chris Remo

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Bob422

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April 23, 2006 3:32 PM

Final Fantasy VII

Just thinking about it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
- theBorgie
  
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  April 23, 2006 3:47 PM
  
  As much as I liked 7 I don't know why people liked it so much. I still reguard Final Fantasy 3(US) as the greatest of all time. I think FF lost some of its greatness in its transition to 3d.
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